GRE考试阅读辅导：长难句实例分析64

　　With regard to this last question, we might note in passing that Thompson, while rightly restoring laboring people to the stage of eighteen-century English history, has probably exaggerated the opposition of these people to the inroads of capitalist consumerism in general: for example, laboring people in eighteen-century England readily shifted from home-brewed beer to standardized beer produced by huge, heavily capitalized urban breweries.

　　关于这个最后的问题，我们可以顺便指出，T尽管正确的使劳动人民重返十八世纪英国的历史舞台，但是她又可能吹嘘了这些人对于资本主义消费观在普遍意义上的敌视态度;比如说，十八世纪的英国劳动人民就很容易从家酿的啤酒转而引用由大型的、资本密集的城市酿酒厂生产的标准啤酒。In passing:顺便的、随便的、偶然的

　　难句类型：复杂修饰、插入语

　　解释：本句的难点就在于句子开始的we might note in passing that Thompson一句中，不认识in passing这个词组，现场就无法读懂这句话的结构和含义;好在这里这个词组没有什么特别重要的意思，即使跳过也不耽误大事。

　　In passing的意思是：顺便地，随便地或偶然地，其在英文中的同义词就是briefly,incidentally。句子中的note in passing that就是顺便提一下，简单说一句的意思。

　　意群训练：With regard to this last question, we might note in passing that Thompson, while rightly restoring laboring people to the stage of eighteen-century English history, has probably exaggerated the opposition of these people to the inroads of capitalist consumerism in general: for example, laboring people in eighteen-century England readily shifted from home-brewed beer to standardized beer produced by huge, heavily capitalized urban breweries.